Why Did Walmart Just Buy a Shopping Mall?

Walmart hasn’t said much about its plans for Monroeville Mall in Pennsylvania. But its partner has told some store owners that the mall will be demolished for a mixed-use development.

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Baltimore’s Billion-Dollar Plans to Reinvent Itself

The city’s population is growing, and homicide rates are at a 50-year low. Local officials are trying to seize on the momentum with redevelopment projects — but not without pushback.

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Florida Plans to Hand Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library

President Trump has not revealed any concrete plans for a future library, but his son and others have been scouting possible sites in South Florida for months.

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Bally’s Bronx Casino Proposal Advances in Bid for New York Gambling License

If Bally’s Bronx is awarded a license, it will have to pay $115 million to the Trump Organization, which operated a golf course on the site.

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Hudson Yards Developer May Get Another $2 Billion Boost From New York

The tentative deal comes on top of nearly $6 billion in government aid that already benefited the firm, Related Companies, when the first phase was built.

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How One Man Is Working to Solve Los Angeles’s Homelessness Problem on His Own

For years, John Alle complained to Los Angeles officials about homelessness. Now, fed up, he’s trying to make a dent in the problem on his own.

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Can the Galápagos Adapt to Airbnb?

The islands that Charles Darwin made famous have become more accessible. Too accessible, say some residents and researchers, who fear nature is imperiled.

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Five-Alarm Fire on Brooklyn Waterfront Devastates Artists’ Warehouse

A row of converted 19th-century buildings filled with artists in the 1990s and transformed Red Hook. Now the work of more than 500 artists may be lost.

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A Surprise Awaited These Travelers at Check-In: The Hotel Was Closed

Several Manhattan hotels operated by LuxUrban abruptly closed without warning, leaving visitors from around the world scrambling for a place to stay.

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How Wall Street’s Big Bets on A.I. Are Driving Interest in Huge Parking Lots

J.P. Morgan, Blackstone and other financial giants are buying “industrial outdoor storage,” sites vital to logistics, trade and the construction of data centers.

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